CALM vs. MKC, TSN, HRL, CAG, CPB, PPC, SJM, POST, LANC, and FLO
Should you be buying Cal-Maine Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cal-Maine Foods include McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Tyson Foods (TSN), Hormel Foods (HRL), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Post (POST), Lancaster Colony (LANC), and Flowers Foods (FLO). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Cal-Maine Foods vs.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE:MKC) and Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated has higher revenue and earnings than Cal-Maine Foods. Cal-Maine Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McCormick & Company, Incorporated, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, McCormick & Company, Incorporated and McCormick & Company, Incorporated both had 10 articles in the media. Cal-Maine Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat McCormick & Company, Incorporated's score of 1.04 indicating that Cal-Maine Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cal-Maine Foods has a net margin of 16.09% compared to McCormick & Company, Incorporated's net margin of 11.87%. Cal-Maine Foods' return on equity of 24.25% beat McCormick & Company, Incorporated's return on equity.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated received 177 more outperform votes than Cal-Maine Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.91% of users gave McCormick & Company, Incorporated an outperform vote while only 53.08% of users gave Cal-Maine Foods an outperform vote.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated currently has a consensus price target of $81.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.71%. Cal-Maine Foods has a consensus price target of $67.00, suggesting a potential downside of 34.88%. Given McCormick & Company, Incorporated's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe McCormick & Company, Incorporated is more favorable than Cal-Maine Foods.
79.7% of McCormick & Company, Incorporated shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 22.9% of McCormick & Company, Incorporated shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Cal-Maine Foods pays an annual dividend of $4.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. McCormick & Company, Incorporated pays out 61.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cal-Maine Foods pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. McCormick & Company, Incorporated has increased its dividend for 38 consecutive years. Cal-Maine Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cal-Maine Foods has a beta of -0.1, suggesting that its share price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
McCormick & Company, Incorporated beats Cal-Maine Foods on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CALM) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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